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Rob Metzler, a 1998 graduate of Conard High School, is the Tampa Bay Rays scouting director. He was promoted from assistant director of amateur scouting. Metzler played baseball and hockey at Conard. A check of The Courant archives found a game in which...

WASHINGTON — The euphoria of a quick start has given way to the sobering task of getting their season back on track.That's how things have changed for the Connecticut Sun since the final seconds ticked off June 26 in their overtime win over the Los...

NEW YORK — Long before she became a professional athlete, Kalana Greene's entrepreneurial spirit carried her from place to place, activity to activity. When she was at UConn, she spun music at campus parties to widen her social circle and give herself...

UNCASVILLE — In her first return to Mohegan Sun Arena since the final game of the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, Asjha Jones saw plenty of familiar faces. Yes, plenty of familiar faces and familiar things.
"The first one I saw was that dang...

UNCASVILLE — Poised to become one of the WNBA's breakout players, Bria Hartley instead begins the new season balancing on crutches. This is what can happen; the stress of an unrelenting playing schedule sometimes results in a stress reaction to the...

UNCASVILLE – After the regular-season finale on Sept. 13, there will be no debate about how these early-season injuries impacted the Connecticut Sun. Everyone will know; either the Sun will head to the Eastern Conference semifinals or home to face another...

UNCASVILLE — There are questions, so many questions with the 2015 Connecticut Sun. We do know this much now. Their young star will not play this season.
The announcement that 2014 WNBA rookie of the year Chiney Ogwumike is out for good this year came...

In terms of pure star power, the NBA Finals between Golden State and Cleveland come as close to appointment television as anything we've seen recently. LeBron James and Stephen Curry are the most exciting players in the league, and the...

UNCASVILLE – Since Anne Donovan replaced Mike Thibault as coach, the Connecticut Sun's roster has undergone understandable transformation.Only Kelsey Griffin and Allison Hightower remain from Thibault's last team in 2012, which reached the deciding...

UNCASVILLE — By the time the Connecticut Sun conduct media day Tuesday at Mohegan Sun, the team will be two days into the preparation for the season.
The 2015 season follows two that ended out of the playoffs. When the Sun dismissed Mike Thibault after...

Six seasons into her professional career, Renee Montgomery has seen a lot of people come and go. That would include herself. On Jan. 28, for the second time in her WNBA tenure, she went when the Connecticut Sun dealt her to the Seattle Storm.
"I...

Once the Red Sox lost out on Jon Lester, which was no great surprise, they moved quickly to fill their rotation, adding lefthander Wade Miley (Arizona) and righthander Rick Porcello (Detroit) in trades, then reaching an agreement with...

The Connecticut Sun, with the primary goal of getting back to the playoffs after missing them the past two seasons, will begin their 13th year at Mohegan Sun Arena against Washington on June 5 and will play three of their first four games at home....

UNCASVILLE – Anne Donovan made no secret that coaching the Connecticut Sun for the first time in 2013 was perhaps the most painful experience of her career. She inherited a team one win from the WNBA finals, with players fiercely loyal to coach Mike...

UNCASVILLE — Time ran out on the Connecticut Sun's season long before the clock did on Sunday's regular season finale at the Mohegan Sun Arena against the Atlanta Dream.The Sun's 84-55 win over the Eastern Conference champions was fancy window dressing...

While I have been following the Connecticut Sun all season, and am well aware of what has been perceived by many, at least in the media, as inexperience in explaining the team's poor results, I attended my first game Sunday and would like to add three...

UNCASVILLE — It's been two seasons since Mike Thibault became the former coach of the Connecticut Sun and the head coach of the Washington Mystics.
That's been enough time for some of the rough edges to smooth over; Thibault did spend time before...

UNCASVILLE — With little chance of making the playoffs, the Connecticut Sun begin the final week of the WNBA season Sunday against the Washington Mystics at the Mohegan Sun Arena."We knew there would be struggles this season. Did we predict this?...

On the day Derek Jeter passed Honus Wagner for sixth place on the all-time hits list — the 3,431st of the Yankee captain's career — we pose a question: Really, don't you think the Yankees need to slow down these ceremonies awarding plaques in Monument...